10 YPG prisoners who got injured during the resistance against ISIS in Kobanê are being prevented from receiving treatment at Osmaniye T2 Closed Prison. Lawyer Tugay Bek said that the prisoners are unfit to stay in jail due to their health conditions. YPG fighter Savaş Sönmez who was transported from Urfa to Osmaniye is in critical condition and faces great risks if the state officials’ prevention persist. Lawyer Bek said that Sönmez has loss of vision and hemiplegy, but prison officials in Osmaniye prevent Sönmez’s treatment.

Lawyer Bek stated that many prisoners object to officials’ attempts to have prisoners examined in handcuffs, which is used by officials as an excuse to prevent prisoners from receiving treatment. Kobanê veteran named Muhammed is one of such prisoners and officials are preventing his post-intestine surgery treatment. Bek called on the public to be more sensitive to such human rights violations and demanded that the Ministry of Justice address the urgent needs of injured prisoners in critical condition.

Lawyer Bek said that officials at Osmaniye T2 Prison have carried out many similar human rights violations since the prison’s establishment one year ago. Bek said that officials at the new prison are trying to assert their authority through oppression and violence, and prisoners Ozan Özbey, Hakan Akgül and Sinan Gül were exiled to another prison after being assaulted and injured by prison officials. Bek described such exiles as ‘second sentences’ and grave human rights violations, and called on the public to be more sensitive on this issue.